Note 16 — Chapter I · PHYSICAL PAIN.
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In his preface Sergi briefly indicates the “antecedents of his theory.” He finds it in the English anatomist Todd, in Hack Tuke, Laycock, Herbert Spencer, Brown-Séquard, etc. I may point out that Vulpian, relying on experiments of doubtful interpretation, localised the emotions exclusively in the medulla, Leçons sur l’Anatomie du système nerveux, xxiv.